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POSIX Conformance: Product Information
POSIX Conformance: Product Information
. Since VxWorks
was already being used in the IDM, porting the
FCBC2 software to it seemed a logical
approach, at first.
Unfortunately, the lack of POSIX conformance
proved to be a significant disadvantage, and it
ultimately contributed to the failure of the
attempted VxWorks port, despite the three
years that had been spent on that effort.
Finally, the earlier project team cut its losses
and turned to the LynxOS real-time operating
system (RTOS), which is POSIX-conformant,
therefore providing the UNIX compatibility
that was important for the software porting.
In fact, in just six short months, the port to
LynxOS succeeded as expected. "We knew it
would not be difficult to port the FBCB2 code to
LynxOS, said Bob Woodward, director, tactical
communication systems at ICI. And it wasn't.
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1.800.255.5969
LynuxWorks, Inc.
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POSIX conformance at work
LynxOS : The only certified POSIX-conformant RTOS
The LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS)
from LynuxWorks has the most inherently
secure, reliable design of virtually any com-
mercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded oper-
ating system today, and is the most open hard
RTOS available.
LynxOS has supported a full POSIX process
model since its introduction in 1988.
Best of all, POSIX is the natural interface for
LynxOS, so POSIX calls are not an optional
add-on library.
LynxOS is the only RTOS certified by the IEEE
as POSIX-conformant. In addition to the
POSIX.1 specification, LynxOS supports all of
the routines in POSIX.1b and POSIX.1c. sub-
sets (real-time and theads extensions).
Full POSIX conformance and deterministic
performance makes LynxOS ideal for real-time
systems intended to:
Execute complex series of tasks within set
periods of time
Support multiple applications with multiple
interrupting devices
Take full advantage of today's powerful high-
end microprocessor and advanced network
ing architectures
Because LynxOS is designed from the ground
up for conformance to open system interfaces,
developers
can leverage
existing Linux,
UNIX, and POSIX programming talent for
embedded real-time projects. LynxOS not only
conforms to POSIX standards, but it is also the
only RTOS that provides true Linux ABI-com-
patibility.
Linux ABI-compatibility means that applica-
tions written for Linux can easily run on
LynxOS with no loss of functionality and little
time and effort involved.
With the LynuxWorks solution, developers
maximize the value of their code investment
and improve their time to market.